Our Global Society

For this post, I want to explain the distinction between monolectical consensus-building, which involves finding a single source to build consensus around, and dialectical thinking, which [...]

The concept of worldview is pretty central to my work, and there are different ways of categorizing worldviews.  I want to add some depth to a post I wrote last year, which I began by restating a [...]

A few days ago, I spoke with Dr. Gregg Henriques about the “Unified Theory of Knowledge” and what efforts are in progress to close one of the two sides of the so-called [...]

Understanding history as accurately as possible is important because a person’s orientation toward the present and the way that they go about life is very much based on their conception of the [...]

In the Twenty First Century, the news media landscape has become overwhelming.  There is 24 hour continuous coverage that often features obsessive real-time analysis of minute details and also [...]

Any legitimate scientific research, whether it is conducted within academia or governmental agencies or private corporations or professional societies, should include certain self-correcting [...]

Science is one of the most dominant forces in our global society, for better or worse.  Steven Goldman gave this assessment of the relation between science and society in his lecture Science [...]

In a previous post, we saw how there are many different ways of categorizing worldviews. In a more recent post, we saw how people with different worldviews often clash with each other, which [...]

We know that there is incredible diversity among the peoples of the world, but there is something that most of us would agree on: that we all have fundamental beliefs about reality and about [...]

Before we can develop any new and innovative means of addressing the greatest challenges in our world, we need to understand a little more about the world.  There are different notions of what [...]